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A Perfect Counterinsurgency? Making Sense of Moscow’s Policy of Chechenisation

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  • Jean-François Ratelle
  • Emil Aslan Souleimanov

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This article assesses the successes and setbacks of Moscow’s policy of counterinsurgency and beyond. It challenges the general consensus in scholarship positing that military successes associated with Chechenisation have been obtained against the backdrop of Chechnya’s increasingly autonomous status within Russia, considered by some as a case of ‘systemic separatism’. The article tracks how four key mechanisms (Chechnya’s institutional design, internal opposition to the Kadyrov clan, the tradition of blood feud among kadyrovtsy—initially Chechen paramilitary forces named after both Kadyrovs, gradually transformed into seemingly regular Ministry of Interior (MVD) units—and Chechnya’s economic dependency on Moscow) have enabled Moscow to maintain control over Chechnya while simultaneously allowing its elites to consolidate power within the republic.

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  • Jean-François Ratelle & Emil Aslan Souleimanov, 2016. "A Perfect Counterinsurgency? Making Sense of Moscow’s Policy of Chechenisation," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(8), pages 1287-1314, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:8:p:1287-1314
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1230842
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    1. Emil Aslan Souleimanov & Namig Abbasov & David S. Siroky, 2019. "Frankenstein in Grozny: vertical and horizontal cracks in the foundation of Kadyrov’s rule," Asia Europe Journal, Springer, vol. 17(1), pages 87-103, March.

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